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Belted Kingfisher - (Ceryle alcyon) 

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Identification

  • Medium-sized with large crested
         grey head and large beak
  • Grey back, white neck and belly
  • Male has grey stripe across lower neck
  • Female has additional reddish brown
         stripe below grey stripe
  • 13" (33 cm.)

Habitat

  • Streams, ponds
  • Riverbanks or sand banks for nesting

Additional Information

  • Fairly common migrant and summer
         resident
  • Uncommon winter resident
         (found near open water)
  • Gives a loud rattle call while flying
  • Nests in a burrow in river bank,
         near a road cut or quarry

Female Belted Kingfisher on a branch

Male Belted Kingfisher on branch

Female Kingfisher in nest cavity 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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